Starship Asterisk*

Ann wrote: ↑Sat Jan 14, 2023 6:21 pm

johnnydeep wrote: ↑Sat Jan 14, 2023 3:26 pm Hey, did anyone notice the OTHER galaxy that looks quite similar to the possibly double nucleated one being discussed above? It's a ways down and to the right:

Click to view full size image

Great find, Johnny! Your "other" galaxy is definitely a real spiral galaxy, and it is interacting with a smaller galaxy as well.

Ann

Yes, it's indubitably a pair of galaxies, unlike the debatable other "one".

Ann wrote: ↑Sat Jan 14, 2023 6:10 am How strange!
In the Hubble image, we can see one bright "nucleus"(?), and immediately to the right of it we can see one faint yellow "nucleus"(?). And to the right of the second nucleus is another, reasonably bright object.
Ann

I wonder if the right core is in fact a red dwarf star at 10 ly distance from us moving fast between the two snapshots.
Does GAIA have it catalogued?

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johnnydeep wrote: ↑Sat Jan 14, 2023 8:51 pm

Ann wrote: ↑Sat Jan 14, 2023 6:21 pm

johnnydeep wrote: ↑Sat Jan 14, 2023 3:26 pm Hey, did anyone notice the OTHER galaxy that looks quite similar to the possibly double nucleated one being discussed above? It's a ways down and to the right:

Click to view full size image

Great find, Johnny! Your "other" galaxy is definitely a real spiral galaxy, and it is interacting with a smaller galaxy as well.

Ann

Yes, it's indubitably a pair of galaxies, unlike the debatable other "one".

Your "other" galaxy (or galaxies) strengthens my belief that the first object is also a galaxy, in spite of its strange double nucleus. Note how similar the objects are in size, color and morphology. That is exactly what we would expect if these two are galaxies of a similar size, morphology and dust content (or lack thereof), and at a similar distance from us.


Ann

Ann wrote: ↑Sun Jan 15, 2023 5:40 am

johnnydeep wrote: ↑Sat Jan 14, 2023 8:51 pm

Ann wrote: ↑Sat Jan 14, 2023 6:21 pm


Great find, Johnny! Your "other" galaxy is definitely a real spiral galaxy, and it is interacting with a smaller galaxy as well.

Ann

Yes, it's indubitably a pair of galaxies, unlike the debatable other "one".

Your "other" galaxy (or galaxies) strengthens my belief that the first object is also a galaxy, in spite of its strange double nucleus. Note how similar the objects are in size, color and morphology. That is exactly what we would expect if these two are galaxies of a similar size, morphology and dust content (or lack thereof), and at a similar distance from us.

Ann

but here HST portraits both cores as red
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I wonder have these three stars formed from the same proto-disk and do they remain bound?
The middle one seems to move ↙ from HST to JWST by the way the fourth bright dot (only in JWST) must be a background galaxy
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VictorBorun wrote: ↑Sun Jan 15, 2023 12:08 pm

Ann wrote: ↑Sun Jan 15, 2023 5:40 am

johnnydeep wrote: ↑Sat Jan 14, 2023 8:51 pm

Yes, it's indubitably a pair of galaxies, unlike the debatable other "one".

Your "other" galaxy (or galaxies) strengthens my belief that the first object is also a galaxy, in spite of its strange double nucleus. Note how similar the objects are in size, color and morphology. That is exactly what we would expect if these two are galaxies of a similar size, morphology and dust content (or lack thereof), and at a similar distance from us.

Ann

but here HST portraits both cores as red

Click to view full size image 1 or image 2

two-cored - background galaxy 2 jwst.pngtwo-cored - background galaxy 2 hst.png

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The galaxies look red in the HST image because they were (by far most strongly) detected by HST:s infrared filter.

Ann